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my. The neceffity, however, of this voyage appeared flill 

 great enough to make Cleopatra his widow project a fe- 

 cond to the fame place, and greater preparations were made 

 than for the former one. 



But Eudoxus,, trying experiments probably about the 

 courfes of the trade-winds, loft his paffage, and was thrown 

 upon the coaft of Ethiopia ; where, having landed, and made 

 himfelf agreeable to the natives, he brought home to Egypt 

 a particular description of that country and its produce, 

 which furnifhed all the difcovery neccffary to inftrucl: the 

 Ptolemies in every thing that related to the ancient trade of 

 Arabia. In the courfe of the voyage, Eudoxus difcovered 

 the part of the prow of a veffel which had been broken off 

 by a ftorm. The figure of a horfe made it an object of in- 

 quiry ; and fome of the failors on board, who had been em- 

 ployed in European voyages, immediately knew this wreck 

 to be part of one of thofe veilels ufed to trade on the weftcrn 

 ocean. Eudoxus * inllantly perceived all the importance of 

 the difcovery, which amounted to nothing lefs, than that 

 there was a paffage round Africa from the Indian to the At- 

 lantic Ocean. Full of this thought, he returned to Egypt, 

 and,, having fhewn the prow of his veffel to European fhip- 

 mafters, they all declared that this had been part of a vef- 

 fel which had belonged to Cadiz, in Spain. 



This difcovery, great as it was, was to none of more im 

 portance than to Eudoxus ; for, fome time after, falling 

 under the diipleafure of Ptolemy Lathyrus, VUIth of that 



name, 



* Plin. NauHift. lib. 2. cap. 67, 



